GSL shell and Julia

Mar 11, 2012
2 min read

There has been some buzz around a new language for numerical, and potentially statistical, computation: Julia. Another interesting project is gsl-shell which offers interactive data analysis and visualization with GNU Scientific Library.

Julia

Julia is actually available on GitHub and a binary for OS X can be grabbed from there. That was just for testing purpose, because I expect Julia to be evolving very rapidly in the next few months and I don’t want to recompile Julia every time.

Among its most interesting features are the web REPL with d3js-based visualization, and transparent FFI support. That’s a very biased summary, which comes from my looking for similar facilities with Common Lisp or Scheme at the moment.

gsl-shell

Beside Julia, gsl-shell offers a full interface to the GSL via a REPL based on the Lua JIT compiler.